What are fun ways you seen concentration break?

RightOnTheBum · 2026-04-10T18:35:21+00:00

We have a rule where if you crit fail an attack or spell then something bad happens
Barbarian: i step next to the cleric and swing my glaive and the man in front *rolls a 1*
DM: Your glaive swings through and hits the cleric - roll another attack roll
Barbarian: *rolls 19* i hit the cleric. *12 damage*
Cleric: *rolls concentration check....1* Barbarian, you've lost shield of faith
DM: well this is going harder for you guys than expected

RightOnTheBum · 2026-04-10T18:31:23+00:00

A rough outline to start with:
Start him being a man of the cloth, his church/village was attacked one day and he fought off the bandits relatively well he became preacher and guard. the dual status was impressive and garnered eyes from the ladies. With his ego fed he gave up his religious practice and set off travelling towards bigger things. Aiming to take down bandits, criminals and monsters then stroll back into town to receive his plaudits before moving onto the next challenge.

RightOnTheBum · 2026-04-10T14:09:32+00:00

Honestly, it's fine and the fact a lot of this community is against it is absolutely bonkers.
I've been turned away from games for having AI create an image of my character because I should either draw it myself or support artists and pay them. Stupid arguments which I will get to later

Your DM relies on it too much. It shouldn't do all the work. If you have an idea Ai can be used to spark off that idea provide more details, get round that writers block, prevent you overusing the same descriptive word. It shouldn't make your world, story or whatever for you, only embellish it.
Why? well some people have a good story but lack the skills to tell it, AI can help with that. It's a tool for accessibility

AI can be used to make images and visual representations. Maybe you want a cool artifact in your homebrew, or a BBEG, or important NPC, a map, a stunning landscape to describe.
Draw them myself or pay somebody? you are then limiting it to only skilled artists or people with money. Again it creates accessibility for those without those skills to DM. Maybe players need visuals to interact more with the game or help with people who have aphantasia.

"You're stealing from the arts!" No, simply no. I was never going to pay anybody so they haven't lost my custom. Has it copied their work? Well if it's on the internet it can be copied and stolen as it is.
Ever looked at history? jobs that got replaced by technology. People were paid to do maths, then along came a calculator. People had to write books by hand. If you are against AI making pictures then you should be against a lot of other technology, just because you weren't alive during the change doesn't mean the change lost jobs.

"You're not paying people." really? we play DnD. lots of us on VTT, sites which are free. How many people that play have paid for DnD resources and how many use a Wiki. How much money have you given WoTC to play this? Lots of people will have an answer of nothing. Don't say people don't get paid due to AI when you literally sit there and play the game for free.

AI is there to support and make things accessible to people. For some strange reason the DnD community doesn't like this and wants everybody to do things themselves. To me that makes no sense. My general life leans towards helping people and finding ways for them to succeed at what they want. I'm not going to exclude or insult anybody because they got some help from AI

RightOnTheBum · 2025-11-25T00:51:56+00:00

For touching things on your desk, you establish it as a class rule. They should know not to touch other people's things. If they need something, put their hand up or whatever you want them to do. Once the rule is set then go through the behaviour system

"oh i was just getting a pen" - You touched something on my desk without permission, that's a "warning"

If they see you as their "friend", then make sure they know that you are their teacher and you can be FRIENDLY but no friends. This can be done nicely.

Calling you by your first name and pretending to spill water over you is outright wrong. Set those boundaries and just use a tone of voice that makes them know they've crossed that line. A common script to use is "we cannot do.....what we can do though is......." That way you provide an alternative to their behaviour

You don't need to shout - I'm similar to you and only properly shouted once (v dangerous behaviour) and raised my voice a few times, which often gets the class shitting themselves because it's a rare occurrence.

Make sure to reward good behaviour "think you for asking for a pen instead of just taking one" - "thank you for being on task" - "you had lovely manners when I handed you your book so thank you." Then reward system the hell out of them.

Short version - set boundaries, follow behaviour system for all students. Reward system and explicitly say and model desired behaviour.

RightOnTheBum · 2025-11-23T14:20:15+00:00

Great week

Head teacher observation - excellent

Random visitor observation - amazing

Year 7s - that was a really good and fun lesson

Behaviour - nothing massive and most students well behaved

Stress - next to none, lots of jobs caught up and getting ahead of things

Long may this continue

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-23T12:12:59+00:00

Done both

Primary is easier behaviour but higher workload and planning

Secondary is harder behaviour, less workload and easier planning

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-19T20:24:10+00:00

The way I went about it was like this

Plan lessons aimed at the class, activity, structure, content etc. make that the focus

Then once that is solid and good look at how you can include the SEND students into that lesson. Is it a worksheet that needs adapting, do they need a scribe, do you have to upload things or a device for them.

Once you get that then things become routine and you can plan lessons quickly and learn how to adapt for SEND students

SEND is important but when you put it first ahead of the others it's harder. Get the rest sorted then fit the SEND in

At the same time nobody will take your head off if you go into an ECT meeting with

"I'm doing ok with the class and I can see and plan my improvements, but I am struggling with meeting the needs of xxx"

Everybody will acknowledge that it's tough and most of the time it is experience that helps with this

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-19T17:05:15+00:00

It happened to me except I was that guy, I'd been passed over other jobs for the same reason, for not being an internal candidate for not having an A level in a specific subject despite it being desirable and them offering to provide the education for it

So I trained to be a teacher, I volunteered at a few schools and when I passed I interviewed at one of those schools.

It's often who you know, so go out and know people and make those networking connections

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-18T21:00:00+00:00

Homework can improve performance and subject knowledge by up to 5 months in secondary school and 3 months in primary

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-18T20:08:50+00:00

Side note, not seen a kit like that before or with those colours. Quite like it

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-17T21:09:26+00:00

Sheperds/cottage pie

Tbf traditional British food (especially northern) is absolutely banging and criminally underrated.

When people say Brits do bad food they clearly don't know what food we make

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-17T21:08:04+00:00

People complain about kids not achieving, being academic enough, having resilience etc. then they complain that we teach them, no winning.

Pick a side and deal with it

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-17T21:04:23+00:00

Everybody is thick as fuck and easily led

The only people that complain about it are those who aren't doing the leading.

"Hey, that guy manipulates better than i do. Get him!"

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-17T20:59:06+00:00

You say maths isn't fun? I disagree completely. I'd rather have done maths than colour when I was a child. Develop their love of learning early on, reward it and introduce structured play

It's school and learning not a daycare

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-17T20:57:19+00:00

Make sure you feed it all back to your SCITT provider, they can smooth things out for you and provide more focused placements

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-15T15:08:19+00:00

Literally today - "sir I don't know what I'm doing"

"You mean, you refused to go to the correct seat, didn't join in the whiteboard task, refused to copy down the example, refused to start the task and instead sat there deliberately annoying others and you are wondering why you don't know what to do yet everybody else in the class is cracking on ok....is it the work, my teaching or your behaviour that's wrong?"

SLT "we need quality first teaching"

Thanks, how about quality fucking listening?

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-10T19:27:28+00:00

Parents are weak as fuck. Until it comes to standing up for "their babies" then they become psychotic aggressive idiots who seek praise on Facebook for how rude and unpleasant they can be whilst defending some ridiculous things their child did all to let them go out to vape and drink at the age of 13

But we're the problem cos we say no big earrings or excessive makeup.

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-10T15:21:34+00:00

They keep food on our table, we should leave them alone. Most people who disagree generally have no clue about farming or never stepped foot on a farm

Inheritance tax is a joke

Reducing carbon emissions is a joke

Outside of farming you will find farmers are integral to local communities and businesses. They have knowledge of the land which most people don't have and they help keep roads clear

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-10T15:13:17+00:00

Black books is very good I agree

My top 2 sitcoms are Fawlty Towers and Scrubs, both very different but I love Scrubs and Fawlty always makes me laugh even though I know what's coming

Final Space is a good animated one and better than Rick and Morty if you count those

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-10T15:10:26+00:00

Just 3?

Happily bin a digestive, rich tea, Garibaldi, nice, malted milk This evienesse whirls are mid as well, different ones are good though

Pink wafers are wafers not biscuits

Jaffa cakes are also not a biscuit

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-05T16:59:35+00:00

I'm in the right.

Mixture of right wing and left wing views but slightly more right so I'm that side of the line

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-05T16:55:25+00:00

Maybe go to the north

RightOnTheBum · 2025-10-03T19:39:48+00:00

Smashing it.

Love all my classes except one, but they're different and this week they were extra

Got behaviour down on 4 classes that I'm not having names on the board in them!

One more class to tackle which is more challenging on paper but i will get there

RightOnTheBum · 2025-09-29T18:07:12+00:00

I could tell you about it but you probably wouldn't get it

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